Democracy Quotes

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. (H. L. Mencken)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter. View quote
Winston Churchill
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. View quote
Grover Cleveland
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. View quote
Winston Churchill
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. View quote
Dan Quayle
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. View quote
Bill Vaughan
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. View quote
Noam Chomsky
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy. View quote
George Soros
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. View quote
Norman Mailer
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. View quote
Benito Mussolini
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. View quote
Helen Thomas
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. View quote
Tom Stoppard
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. (Adlai Stevenson II)
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
DEMOCRACY n The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. View quote
E. B. White